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1:04:01

None Shall Password - DTNS Live 4986

DTNS Live ·

2025/03/28

A Chinese leaker says Apple’s upcoming “iPhone Fold” will feature a foldable screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio. Microsoft is phasing-in a new passwordless sign-in experience for over 1 billion user accounts, with a focus on eliminating passwords. DOGE plans to migrate Social Security’s legacy code base to something more modern over a few months. Is that enough time to ensure the system’s integrity stays intact? And it's Friday. We test everyone’s knowledge of failed or bankrupted tech brands.Starring

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57:23

Preserve, Preserve, Preserve - DTNS Live 4984

DTNS Live ·

2025/03/26

Amazon announced a new AI ‘Interests’ feature which uses personalized shopping prompts “in everyday language” to track down current and new products, AI web crawlers are consuming too much bandwidth, and that which is old is new again.Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson, Amos, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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56:47

Braking the Ice With Hockey Tech - DTNS Live 4968

DTNS Live ·

2025/03/04

What’s got everyone excited about the NHL's smart watch app for referees? Google Messages is adding a scam detection tool for Android users. Smartphone concepts that use full size camera lenses make a reappearance at this year's Mobile World Congress. And Hasbro announces a Monopoly App Banking, replacing cash and the banker with a mobile app to manage all transactions in the board game. Would you play it?Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Tasia Custode, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes

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1:00:41

Thank You Claude! - DTNS Live 4967

DTNS Live ·

2025/03/03

Allison Sheridan shares her experience with getting rid of her landline after 42 years. Should parents of young children expose them to generative AI at an early age? Lenovo announced some wild new laptop form factors and concepts.Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Allison Sheridan, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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56:23

Click & Smell - DTNS Live 4962

DTNS Live ·

2025/02/24

Perplexity teases its upcoming web browser and shares a wait list. ASUS debuts a new computer mouse you can smell. Google is pricing its new video generation model Veo 2 at $0.50/sec. And researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have conducted unbiased sampling of YouTube videos uncovering data Google itself won’t share.Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:03:01

ChatGPT Operator is Standing By! - DTNS Live 4961

DTNS Live ·

2025/02/21

Apple will disable its Advanced Data Protection end-to-end encryption feature in the UK. HP forced customers in Europe to wait 15 minutes on the phone to encourage its customers to use chat or social media for support calls. And it's Friday. We quiz you on your knowledge of secret codes and messages in history, corporate logos and movies.Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Molly Wood, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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55:42

Another Brick In My Pants - DTNS Live 4959

DTNS Live ·

2025/02/19

Microsoft Research develops a generative AI model that can build out game worlds. Humane, the makers of the failed Humane AI pin, is selling most of its company to HP for $116 million. Eufy announced the FamiLock S3 Max, a video lock that can automatically unlock doors when it reads the palms of authorized people.Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:01:55

Quote the Mastodon, "Ever More" - DTNS Live 4957

DTNS Live ·

2025/02/14

Mastodon is working to add the controversial ‘quote posts’ feature found on other platforms like X, Bluesky and Threads. A memo shows Meta has plans investments into AI-driven humanoid robots, memo shows. Y Combinator startup Firecrawl seeks to hire an AI agent for $15K a year. Real effort or just free publicity? And we test everyone’s knowledge of theme restaurants with this week’s quiz!Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See

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58:09

Creating Distilled Models is Half the Battle! - DTNS...

DTNS Live ·

2025/02/06

Could the threat posed by Ransomware be diminishing? A new cyber security report holds some tantalizing data. Why is Microsoft Teams getting Facebook-like functionality? Bloomberg’s sources suggest that Amazon’s belt tightening will raise fears of “lean years ahead” And Stanford and the University of Washington AI researchers trained an AI “reasoning” model for under $50.Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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59:33

Taking Driver Assistance to New Levels - DTNS Live 4949

DTNS Live ·

2025/02/04

A new app from the Icon Factory called Tapestry pulls together feeds from Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, YouTube, and more into one timeline. Fox Executive Chairman Lachlan Murdoch told analysts the company will finally get into the mainstream paid streaming subscription game this year. Adobe is adding a new Contract Intelligence feature to its Acrobat “AI Assistant” to scan contracts and flag important details.Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted

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1:00:23

Deep Seeking Deep Research - DTNS Live 4948

DTNS Live ·

2025/02/03

OpenAI announced Deep Research, an agentic ChatGPT tool, that lets users ask the chatbot to perform “multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks”. AI companies like Anthropic would like job applicants NOT to use AI on their submission. Fitness+ adds hours of Kendrick Lamar themed workouts to celebrate Super Bowl LIX. And where are all the new GPUs that Nvidia launched?Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See

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1:00:40

LinkedIn's Break Room - DTNS Live 4947

DTNS Live ·

2025/01/31

LinkedIn’s efforts to bring more video creators on board seems to be paying off. Why is Nintendo going after a Costa Rican grocery store owner? Plus OpenAI launched o3-mini, a new AI reasoning model designed to be both powerful and more affordable. And it's Friday and time for another end of week Fun Time Quiz. Can you figure out the answer before everyone else?Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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1:00:21

Throwing Spaghetti at the Facebook Wall - DTNS Live 4946

DTNS Live ·

2025/01/30

Microsoft integrates OpenAI’s o1 model into Copilot and gives Copilot users free access to it. PLus Microsoft is making a NPC optimized version of DeepSeek’s R1 model to run locally on Copilot+PC machines. Google is launching “Ask for me,” a new Search Lab experiment that uses AI to call businesses for local service pricing and availability. And Facebook realizes it is no longer relevant to younger audiences.Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on

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56:01

Goodness Scrape! - DTNS Live 4945

DTNS Live ·

2025/01/29

OpenAI tells the Financial Times that it found evidence that Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used OpenAI’s proprietary models to train its system. An anti-AI scrapping activist creates a tarpit to trap AI crawlers in an endless maze of links to nowhere. Plus Xbox’s Phil Spencer made an interesting comment about hard exclusives on the platform. And how do teens really feel about the tech industry and the dangers of the AI industry?Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to

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1:00:25

All About That Bias - DTNS Live 4944

DTNS Live ·

2025/01/28

As generative AI develops much of the focus has been on the human-like quality of their output. But what does the data show regarding how AI-human interaction creates a feedback loop that impacts our biases? X has partnered with Visa to offer peer-to-peer fund transfer. Is it enough to pull people back to the platform and will existing users even use it? The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has reported on a study that shows almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN.Starring Sarah Lane,

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55:44

DeepSeek Makes Deep Impression - DTNS Live 4943

DTNS Live ·

2025/01/27

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek shakes up the tech market with its R1 Reasoning model that it claims has better performance than OpenAI’s o1 model at just 3% to 5 % of the cost. Canadian developer Daniel Supernault has launched a Kickstarter to increase development of federated social media apps. And multiple YouTube viewers say they are getting served hour-long ads on YouTube without an option to skip them.Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes

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1:02:12

Swinging Telegram - DTNS Live 4942

DTNS Live ·

2025/01/24

Scientists from Tufts University have accidentally made a sticky web-like substance not unlike what Spider-man would use. The next generation of Apple’s Car Play, up until yesterday or so, was supposed to come out in 2024. What’s going on with the update and should 3rd party car infotainment systems be put on notice? Plus it's Friday and time to test everyone’s knowledge of Stargate. And how social networks differ around the globe.Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Len Peralta, Roger Chang, Joe.Link

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55:43

An OpenAI Relationship - DTNS Live 4941

DTNS Live ·

2025/01/23

OpenAI, Softbank, and Oracle announced Stargate, a $500 billion investment initiative into building data centers for AI in the US. Sony will end Blu-ray production next month. Security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in a Subaru web portal that let them take over car controls and track driver location data. And OpenAI announced Thursday it’s launching a “research preview” of Operator.Starring Sarah Lane, Robb Dunewood, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See

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1:02:33

NetFlex - DTNS Live 4940

DTNS Live ·

2025/01/22

GDC has released its State of the Game Industry 2025 survey. What does it say about the general mood among game developers, their interest in generative AI and platforms they’re developing for. We look at the highlights from Samsung’s latest Unpacked event where they unveiled new Galaxy S series phones and generative AI services. Plus why is Netflix raising prices again?Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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1:01:01

TikTok, Who's There? - DTNS Live 4939

DTNS Live ·

2025/01/21

How AI models are helping streamline the process of developing anti-venom for victims of snake bites. We share how we dealt with the “harrowing” ordeal of this past weekend’s TikTok outage. Spotify expands its offerings to include educational courses and self-help content.Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.Link to the Show Notes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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